Azerbaijan’s Security Service detains transnational criminal group engaged in making fake foreign documents

Azerbaijan’s State Security Service (SSS) detained members of a transnational organized criminal group that misused the processes recently taking place between the states of the region and provided the citizens of Azerbaijan and other countries with official documents belonging to the state of Ukraine illegally so that they could live in different states, get asylum, and move freely without a visa under the name of Ukrainian citizens, Report informs citing the SSS press service.

The investigations found that since January 2023, Nuriyev Ibadat Kahraman (lived in Lviv, Ukraine), Bagirov Farid Vagif (lived in Istanbul, Türkiye), and others illegally prepared Ukrainian passports, identity cards, driver's licenses, and other documents for different individuals and sold them for various amounts of cash, up to $30,000 each.